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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 9: Gender and Participation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
    This issue of in brief traces synergies and tensions between gender and participation in development practice. The lead article reminds development practitioners that institutions need to mainstream gender-aware and participatory approaches into their own work to ensure that development is truly equitable.
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    Gender and Participation: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
    By directing practitioners to useful information sources and examples on gender and participatory approaches, the Supporting Resources Collection seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how gender sensitive, participatory development has been and can be achieved.
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    Gender and Participation: Overview Report

    2010
    This Overview Report looks at convergences between approaches to gender and to participation, how these have been played out, and how they have been or could be constructively integrated into projects, programmes, policies, and institutions.
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    Voice and Women's Empowerment: Mapping a Research Agenda

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    How is 'women's political voice' measured? What does 'representation' really mean? Too often women's political voice in public decision making is measured by the number of women in public office.
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    Combined Second and Third Periodic CEDAW Report - Nepal

    2003
    What progress has been made towards eliminating discrimination against women in Nepal since the first CEDAW Country Report was produced in 1997? This 2003 combined second and third CEDAW Country Report for Nepal outlines improvements made since the first Report, as well as continuing obstacles.
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    Reforming the Penal Code in Turkey: the Campaign for the Reform of the Turkish Penal Code from a Gender Perspective

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    This paper describes how the Turkish NGO, Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR), campaigned for gender-sensitive legal reform. WWHR established the Platform for the Reform of the Turkish Penal Code, comprised of women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) groups, in order to provide a strong basis for the campaign.
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    Gender and Security Sector Reform Training Resource Package

    Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2009
    Security sector reform (SSR) is increasingly prioritised by governments, and by international development, peace and security communities.
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    Demonstrating Legislative Leadership: The Introduction of Rwanda's Gender-Based Violence Bill

    Initiative for Inclusive Security, 2008
    Women make up 45.3 percent of Rwanda's two houses of parliament and a record-breaking 48.8 percent of the elected lower house.
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    Poverty Pathways: Ethnic Minority Women's Livelihoods

    Fawcett Society, 2009
    Forty percent of ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK - twice the proportion of White women. Poverty extends to more than a third of Black women and almost two thirds of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women.
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    Governance and citizenship from below: Views of poor and excluded groups and their vision for a New Nepal

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2009
    How do poor Nepali women and men understand citizenship? How do they experience and practise it? What barriers do they face and how do they think these could be overcome? This report addresses such questions, focusing on grassroots experiences and understandings of governance and citizenship, and the implications for state building in post-conflict Nepal.

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